Jack McGee (born February 2, 1949) is an American television and film character actor. He has appeared in over 100 films and television series.[1]

McGee is perhaps best known as Chief Jerry Reilly on the television series Rescue Me, he was a regular cast member on the FX series for three seasons. In 2010, he co-starred as Hickey on the Spike TV comedy series Players.

McGee provided the voice for Mr. White in the 2006 Reservoir Dogs video game, he also is the voice of Big Ed in the game Real Heroes: Firefighter, as well as the driver and engineer in the movie Backdraft.

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South Bronx
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The South Bronx is an area of the New York City borough of the Bronx. As the name implies, the area comprises neighborhoods in the part of the Bronx, such as Concourse, Mott Haven, Melrose. Formerly a deteriorating, poverty-stricken area, the South Bronx is now known for its hip hop culture, the geographic definitions of the South Bronx have evolved and are disputed but certainly include the neighborhoods of Mott Haven, Melrose and Port Morris. The neighborhoods of Belmont, Castle Hill, Crotona Park East, Highbridge, Hunts Point, Longwood, Morrisania, the South Bronx is part of New Yorks 15th Congressional District. The South Bronx is served by the NYPDs 40th, 41st, 42nd, 44th, the South Bronx was originally called the Manor of Morrisania, and later Morrisania. The Morris memorial is at St. Anns Church of Morrisania, Morris descendants own land in the South Bronx to this day. As the Morrises developed their landholdings, an influx of German, later, the Bronx was considered the Jewish Borough, and at its peak in 1930 was 49% Jewish. Jews in the South Bronx numbered 364,000 or 57. 1% of the population in the area. The term was first coined in the 1940s by a group of workers who identified the Bronxs first pocket of poverty, in the Port Morris section. Originally denoting only Mott Haven and Melrose, the South Bronx extended up to the Cross Bronx Expressway by the 1960s, encompassing Hunts Point, Morrisania, the South Bronx is a place for working-class families. Its image as an area developed in the latter part of the 20th century. There were several factors contributing to the decay of the South Bronx, white flight, landlord abandonment, economic changes, demographics, the Cross Bronx Expressway, completed in 1963, was a part of Robert Moses’ urban renewal project for New York City. The expressway is now known to have been a factor in the urban decay seen by the borough in the 1970s and 1980s. Cutting through the heart of the South Bronx, the highway displaced thousands of residents from their homes, the neighborhood of East Tremont, in particular, was completely destroyed by the Expressway. Others have argued that the construction of highways has not harmed communities. The already poor and working-class neighborhoods were further disadvantaged by the property value. Racially charged tension, during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, further contributed to middle-class flight, some neighborhoods were considered undesirable by homeowners in the late 1960s and the areas population began decreasing. In addition, post World War II, rent control policies have been proposed by one author as contributing to the decline, in either case, while desirable housing options were scarce, vacancies further increased

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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci

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Character actor
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A character actor or character actress is a supporting actor who plays unusual, interesting, or eccentric characters. The term, often contrasted with that of leading actor, is somewhat abstract, in a literal sense, all actors can be considered character actors since they all play characters, but in the usual sense it is an actor who plays a distinctive and important supporting role. In either case, character actor roles are more substantial than bit parts or non-speaking extras, the term is used primarily to describe television and film actors, and is less used to describe theater actors. An early use of the term was in the 1883 edition of The Stage, Actors with a long career history of playing character roles may be difficult for audiences to recognize as being the same actor, if they play such roles convincingly and memorably. Unlike leading actors, they are seen as less glamorous. Generally, the names of actors are not featured prominently in movie and television advertising on the marquee. Some character actors have distinctive voices or accents, or they develop memorable mannerisms, a character actor with a long career may not have a well-known name, yet may be instantly recognizable. During the course of a career, an actor can sometimes shift between leading roles and secondary roles. Some leading actors, as they get older, find that access to leading roles is limited by their increasing age, in the past, actors of color, who were often barred from roles for which they were otherwise suited, found work performing ethnic stereotypes. Sometimes character actors have developed based on specific talents needed in genre films, such as dancing, horsemanship, acrobatics, swimming ability. Some character actors develop a following with a particular audience. Ed Lauter usually portrayed a menacing figure because of his long, angular face which was recognized in public. Character actors can play a variety of types, such as the femme fatale, gunslinger, sidekick, town drunk, villain, whore with a heart of gold, Character actors subsume themselves into the characters they portray, such that their off-screen acting persona is practically unrecognizable. According to one view, great actors are rarely out of work. They are also highly regarded by fellow actors. Stock character Commedia dellarte Quinlan, David, quinlans Illustrated Directory of Film Character Actors. Character Kings, Hollywoods Familiar Faces Discuss the Art & Business of Acting

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Rescue Me (U.S. TV series)
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Rescue Me is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on the FX on July 21,2004 and concluded on September 7,2011. The series focuses on the professional and personal lives of a group of New York City firefighters, the protagonist and focal point of the series is veteran New York City Firefighter Tommy Gavin. The series follows Tommys troubled family and co-workers as they deal with life issues. Tommy struggles with the loss of his cousin and best friend, Firefighter Jimmy Keefe, as well as fifty-nine other firefighters whom he knew, Jimmy frequently visits Tommy in ghostly dreams. Tommy is an impatient, self-loathing, hypocritical, manipulative, relapsed alcoholic who suffers with severe survivor guilt, in the pilot episode, Tommy and his wife Janet have already separated, although they are technically still married, and Tommy has moved across the street. Rescue Me mainly focuses on the family of Tommy Gavin and the men of Tommys firehouse, the show opens by exploring their lives, both at home and inside the firehouse. It also features the well-known comedian Denis Leary, who carries his humorous nature over into the show. Gavin and his wife, Janet are separated and, from across the street, he sees her begin to again and plans to get her back and prevent her from taking his children. Janet separated from Tommy several months prior, due to his failure to commit to his family and open up about 9/11. Tommy also begins an affair with Jimmys widow Sheila, and Probationary Firefighter, or probie Mike Silletti begins to date a fat chick named Theresa. Lt. Ken Shea, Tommys superior officer, deals with 9/11 by secretly writing poetry, after firefighter Billy Warren dies in a fire, the city sends Laura Miles to replace him. She clashes with the guys in general and with Tommy in particular and she is watching him, and believes he is becoming dangerous as he takes more and more seemingly unnecessary risks on the job. In the final scene of the finale, Tommy shows up at his wifes house to find her. While consuming a bottle of vodka he finds in a cupboard, the second season premiered on June 21,2005. It began with Tommy at a new firehouse on Staten Island and his replacement at 62 Truck, Sully, while responding to a fire at an underground sex club, they discover that the woman they rescued is really Sully in a black leather skirt and bustier. The next day, Sully requests a transfer because he knows that the crew will never let him live that down and this clears the way for Tommy to return. Back in the old house Tommy shifts his focus to finding his family and dealing with his father, Sheila has a miscarriage, but lies about it to keep Tommy near. Later on in the season, Sheila gets involved in a relationship with a woman who turns abusive towards Sheila, meanwhile, Tommy and Johnny Gavin find out that their father had a long, on-going affair during their childhood, which produced two children

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FX (TV channel)
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FX is an American basic cable and satellite television channel launched on June 1,1994, based in Los Angeles, California and owned by 21st Century Fox through FX Networks, LLC. FXs programming primarily includes original drama and comedy series, and reruns of theatrical films, as of July 2015, FX is available to approximately 94,006,000 pay television households in the United States. In addition to the flagship U. S. network, the FX name is licensed to a number of related pay television channels in various countries around the world, FX, originally stylized as fX, launched on June 1,1994. Broadcasting from an apartment in Manhattans Flatiron District, fX was one of the first forays into large-scale interactive television. FX had two taglines during this period, TV Made Fresh Daily and The Worlds First Living Television Network, the live shows were each mostly focused on one broad topic. Shows included Personal fX, The Pet Department, Under Scrutiny with Jane Wallace, other notable fX personalities included Karyn Bryant and Orlando Jones, who were panelists on Sound fX. The channel prided itself on its interactivity with viewers, FX, in 1994, was an early adopter of the internet, embracing e-mail and the World Wide Web as methods of feedback. Select viewers were allowed to spend a day at the apartment, the first incarnation of fX was not available on Time Warner Cable, one of the major cable systems in New York City, where its programming originated. TWC would not carry the channel until September 2001, the live shows gradually disappeared one by one until only Personal fX remained. Breakfast Time was moved to the Fox network and renamed Fox After Breakfast in mid-1996 and it underwent several format changes, but never found a substantial audience and was canceled less than a year later. By the time that all programming was dropped, the channel focused entirely on its classic television shows until its relaunch in mid-1997. Personal fX remained on the refocused FX until May 1,1998, FX vacated the apartment in the summer of 1998 and the channels operations were streamlined with the other Fox-owned cable channels. In early 1997, fX was relaunched as FX, Fox Gone Cable, during the first few years after its relaunch, FX was known for little else than airing reruns of such Fox shows as The X-Files and Married. With Children, as well as 20th Century Fox-produced shows such as M*A*S*H, the channel also added Major League Baseball games to its lineup at that time, and eventually expanded its sports programming to include NASCAR races in 2001. In the summer of 1998, FX debuted three original series, Bobcats Big Ass Show, Instant Comedy with the Groundlings and Penn & Tellers Sin City Spectacular, all three series were cancelled the following year. Soon after its relaunch, the Fox Gone Cable tagline was dropped, by 1999, new original programs were added with the debut of shows such as Son of the Beach and The X Show. Beginning in 2002, the channel emerged as a force in original cable programming, gaining both acclaim and notoriety for edgy dramas. That year, FX debuted the police drama The Shield, which became a breakout hit, both shows were lauded by critics, and achieved equal success with viewers

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Spike (TV channel)
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Spike is an American cable and satellite channel launched on March 7,1983, owned by Viacom through Viacom Media Networks and based in Los Angeles, California. Spike is an entertainment channel featuring a mix of various programs and movies. Spikes programming reaches approximately 98.7 million pay television subscribers in the United States as well as Canada. As of 2006, Spikes viewers were almost half women, although many of them are reported to be watching it with partners or family members. The average age of the viewers was 42 years old. As of February 2015, approximately 93.4 million households in the U. S. receive Spike, on February 8,2017, Viacom announced that Spike will be rebranded as the Paramount Network sometime early next year. TNN operated from the now-defunct Opryland USA theme park near Nashville, country Music Television, founded by Glenn D. Daniels, beat TNNs launch by two days, robbing them of the claim of the first country music cable television network. TNNs flagship shows included Nashville Now, The Statler Brothers Show, American Sports Cavalcade, Nashville Now and the Grand Ole Opry were broadcast live from Opryland USA. The Gaylord Entertainment Company purchased TNN and the Opryland properties in the half of 1987. Much of TNNs programming during the Gaylord era was produced by Opryland Productions. From 1983 to 1992, all of TNNs auto racing and motor sports coverage was produced by Diamond P Sports. Programming included variety shows, talk shows, game shows, outdoor shows, by 1995, TNN was acquired by Westinghouse Electric Corporation, which had recently acquired CBS around that time, two years later, Westinghouse bought CMT, TNNs chief competitor. In 1998, the channel dropped its The Nashville Network moniker, ownership shifted to Viacom in the late 1990s after its acquisition of CBS Corporation, Westinghouses successor. TNN subsequently relocated its headquarters to New York City from Nashville and was folded into Viacoms MTV Networks division, the networks name change also triggered a significant programming change in an attempt to appeal to a broader audience than the channels original rural/working-class Southern demographic. This change was catalyzed by Viacoms acquisition of the rights to World Wrestling Federation programming, including its flagship show RAW Is War and this was likely an attempt to compete with Universals USA Network which Viacom had briefly owned a stake in during the mid-1990s. Football also became prominent on the network, as it began airing games of the original Arena Football League with Eli Gold as an announcer. The National Network was also one of three networks to air games of the ill-fated XFL, as part of its contract, TNN had the rights to a late Sunday afternoon game each week except for the first week, when UPN aired the afternoon game instead. TNN aired the first opening-round game of the 2001 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championship when organizers expanded the field to 65 teams, the game coverage moved to ESPN in 2002

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Cardinal Hayes High School
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Cardinal Hayes High School is a Catholic high school for boys in the Concourse Village neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City. The school serves the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York and it is a member of the CHSAA. It was constructed in the Art Deco style and it is named after Cardinal Patrick Joseph Hayes, a previous archbishop of New York. Cardinal Hayes was dedicated on September 8,1941 by Cardinal Spellman, Cardinal Hayes current rival is Mount Saint Michael Academy. The two schools teams have met annually since 1942 on Thanksgiving Day. Kevin Loughery, NBA player Detroit Pistons, Baltimore Bullets, player-coach Philadelphia 76ers Jamal Mashburn, NBA player for the Dallas Mavericks, Miami Heat, and New Orleans Hornets Andrew C

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Bronx
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The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, within the U. S. state of New York. Since 1914, the Bronx has had the boundaries as Bronx County, a county of New York. The Bronx is divided by the Bronx River into a section in the west, closer to Manhattan. East and west street addresses are divided by Jerome Avenue—the continuation of Manhattans Fifth Avenue, the West Bronx was annexed to New York City in 1874, and the areas east of the Bronx River in 1895. Bronx County was separated from New York County in 1914, about a quarter of the Bronxs area is open space, including Woodlawn Cemetery, Van Cortlandt Park, Pelham Bay Park, the New York Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo in the boroughs north and center. These open spaces are situated primarily on land reserved in the late 19th century as urban development progressed north. The name Bronx originated with Jonas Bronck, who established the first settlement in the area as part of the New Netherland colony in 1639, the native Lenape were displaced after 1643 by settlers. This cultural mix has made the Bronx a wellspring of both Latin music and hip hop. The Bronx, particularly the South Bronx, saw a decline in population, livable housing, and the quality of life in the late 1960s. Since then the communities have shown significant redevelopment starting in the late 1980s before picking up pace from the 1990s until today, the Bronx was called Rananchqua by the native Siwanoy band of Lenape, while other Native Americans knew the Bronx as Keskeskeck. It was divided by the Aquahung River, the origin of Jonas Bronck is contested. Some sources claim he was a Swedish born emigrant from Komstad, Norra Ljunga parish in Småland, Sweden, who arrived in New Netherland during the spring of 1639. Bronck became the first recorded European settler in the now known as the Bronx and built a farm named Emmanus close to what today is the corner of Willis Avenue. He leased land from the Dutch West India Company on the neck of the mainland north of the Dutch settlement in Harlem. He eventually accumulated 500 acres between the Harlem River and the Aquahung, which known as Broncks River or the Bronx. Dutch and English settlers referred to the area as Broncks Land, the American poet William Bronk was a descendant of Pieter Bronck, either Jonas Broncks son or his younger brother. More recent research indicates that Pieter was probably Jonas nephew or cousin, the Bronx is referred to with the definite article as The Bronx, both legally and colloquially. The region was named after the Bronx River and first appeared in the Annexed District of The Bronx created in 1874 out of part of Westchester County

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The Rascals
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The Rascals were an American rock band, formed in Garfield, New Jersey in 1965. and A Beautiful Morning, plus another critical favorite A Girl Like You. The band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997, the Rascals were inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame in 2010 and also reunited in 2012 for a series of shows in New York and New Jersey. The reunion continued on in 2013 with shows on Broadway, Eddie Brigati, Felix Cavaliere, Gene Cornish and Dino Danelli started the band in Brigati and Danellis hometown of Garfield, New Jersey. Brigati, Cavaliere, and Cornish had previously been members of Joey Dee, Eddies brother, David Brigati, an original Starliter, helped arrange the vocal harmonies and sang backgrounds on many of the groups recordings. When Atlantic Records signed them, they discovered another group, Borrah Minnevitchs and Johnny Puleos Harmonica Rascals. To avoid conflict, manager Sid Bernstein decided to rename the group The Young Rascals, the Young Rascals first television performance was on the program Hullabaloo on 27 February 1965 where they performed their debut single I Aint Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore. The track reached #23 in Canada and touched the lower reaches of the US charts and this modest success was followed by the US/Canada #1 single Good Lovin. The bands songwriting team of Eddie Brigati and Cavaliere then began providing most of their songs, and their immediate follow-ups to Good Lovin, including You Better Run and Come On Up were only modest hits. Lonely Too Long did better, and Groovin returned them to the top of the charts and they reeled off a succession of top 20 US hits, including A Girl Like You, How Can I Be Sure, Its Wonderful, and A Beautiful Morning. The band were popular in Canada where A Girl Like You. But they struggled in the UK, where they twice reached the top 75, with Groovin. The band would bill themselves as the Young Rascals for the last time with the release of Its Wonderful. Bruce Eder, writing for AllMusic, rates the bands 1967 album Groovin as their best, noting the records soulful core and innovative use of jazz and Latin instrumental arrangements. 1968s Once Upon A Dream was the first Rascals album designed from conception as an album, rather than as a vehicle to package their singles. Once Upon a Dream, which peaked at #9 on the charts, contained the single Its Wonderful plus many other strong songs, including Easy Rollin, Rainy Day, My World. Perhaps understandably, the albums song My Hawaii became a top of the hit in Hawaii. Time Peace, The Rascals Greatest Hits, released in mid-1968, topped the U. S. album chart and it was also their final U. S. Top Ten hit, although remained a Canadian top 10 act for the next few years

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Firefighter
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In some areas, they are also trained in Emergency Medical Services and operate ambulances in addition to being a firefighter. The fire service, or fire and rescue service, also known in countries as the fire brigade or fire department, is one of the three main emergency services. Firefighting and firefighters have become ubiquitous around the world, from wildlands to urban areas, according to Merriam-Websters Dictionary, the English word firefighter has been used since 1903. In urban areas across the world the population is protected by paid full time firefighters. The goals of firefighting are, As such, the skills required for operations are regularly practiced during training evaluations throughout a firefighters career. In the United States, the preeminent fire training and standards organization is the National Fire Protection Association, often initial firefighting skills are taught during a local, regional, or state approved fire academy. Depending on the requirements of a department, additional skills and certifications such as technical rescue, Firefighters work closely with other emergency response agencies, most particularly local and state police departments. The increasing role of firefighters in providing medical services also brings firefighters into common overlap with law enforcement. One example of this is a state law requiring all gunshot wounds to be reported to law enforcement agencies. Fire fighting has some skills, prevention, self-preservation, rescue, preservation of property, basic first aid. Firefighting is further broken down into skills which include size-up, extinguishing, ventilation, salvage, wildland firefighting includes size up, containment, extinguishment, and mop up. Search and Rescue, which has already mentioned, is performed early in any fire scenario and many times is in unison with extinguishing. Fire suppression systems have a record for controlling and extinguishing unwanted fires. Many fire officials recommend that every building, including residences, have sprinkler systems. Correctly working sprinklers in a residence greatly reduce the risk of death from a fire, with the small rooms typical of a residence, one or two sprinklers can cover most rooms. Other methods of prevention are by directing efforts to reduce known hazardous conditions or by preventing dangerous acts before tragedy strikes. Tools are generally carried at all times and are important for not only forcible entry, a self-contained breathing apparatus delivers air to the firefighter through a full face mask and is worn to protect against smoke inhalation, toxic fumes, and super heated gases. The PASS device sounds an alarm that can assist another firefighter, Firefighters often carry personal self-rescue ropes

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New York City Fire Department
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The New York City Fire Department is the largest municipal fire department in the United States and the second largest in the world after the Tokyo Fire Department. The FDNY employs approximately 10,200 uniformed firefighters and over 3,940 uniformed EMTs, paramedics and its regulations are compiled in title 3 of the New York City Rules. The FDNYs motto is New Yorks Bravest, the FDNY serves more than 8 million residents within a 320 square mile area. The FDNY headquarters is located at 9 MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn, there are Three Bureau of Fire Communications alarm offices which receive and dispatch alarms to appropriate units. One office, at 11 Metrotech Center in Brooklyn, houses Citywide, Brooklyn, the Bronx houses Manhattan and the Bronx, and Queens houses Queens. The current Fire Commissioner is Daniel A. Nigro, who took over the position from Salvatore J. Cassano in June 2014. Staff chiefs include the seven citywide tour commanders, the Chief of Safety, the Chief of Fire Prevention, operationally and geographically, the department is nominally organized into five Borough Commands for the five traditional Boroughs of New York City. Within those five Borough Commands exists nine firefighting Divisions, each headed by a Deputy Division Chief, within each Division are four to seven Battalions, each led by a Battalion Chief. Each Battalion consists of three to eight firehouses and consists of approximately 180–200 firefighters and officers, each firehouse consists of one to three fire companies. Each fire company is led by a captain, who commands three lieutenants and nine to twenty firefighters, there are currently four shifts of firefighters in each company. Tours can be either night tours or day tours, the FDNY faces highly multifaceted firefighting challenges in many ways unique to New York. The origins of the New York City Fire Department go back to 1648 when the first fire ordinance was adopted in what was then the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam. Peter Stuyvesant, within one year of his arrival, appointed four fire wardens to wooden chimneys of thatched-roofed wooden houses, the first four fire wardens were Martin Krieger, Thomas Hall, Adrian Wyser, and George Woolsey. Hooks, ladders and buckets were financed through the collection of fines for dirty chimneys, an organization known as the prowlers but given the nickname the rattle watch patrolled the streets with buckets, ladders and hooks from nine in the evening until dawn looking for fires. Leather shoe buckets,250 in all, were manufactured by local Dutch shoemakers in 1658, in 1664 New Amsterdam became an English settlement and was renamed New York. The first New York fire brigade entered service in 1731 equipped with two hand-drawn pumpers which had transported from London, England. These two pumpers formed Engine Company 1 and Engine Company 2, the citys first firehouse was built in 1736 in front of City Hall on Broad Street. In 1865, the fire department was abolished by a state act which created the Metropolitan Fire District

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Turk 182
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Turk 182. is a 1985 American action comedy-drama film starring Timothy Hutton, Robert Urich, Kim Cattrall, Robert Culp and Peter Boyle. It is also one of the first movies to receive a PG-13 rating, 34-year-old firefighter Terry Lynch lives with his 20-year-old brother Jimmy in New York City. Theyve spent most of their lives taking care of each other as both of their parents are deceased. Terry, while off duty, rushes from a bar into an apartment fire to rescue a young girl. The force of the stream pushes Terry, with the child in his arms, through a window and some four stories down, the girl is uninjured, but Terry is seriously hurt. Six months later, and after countless rejections from welfare, workers compensation and others, believing Terry was behind the vandalism, the police, led by Lieutenant Ryan, Tylers chief security officer, come to Hoolys, the brothers hangout, to arrest Terry. When Terry, drunk and high on pills, takes a swing at Ryan, Jimmy goes to Battery Park to again confront Mayor Tyler at his anti-graffiti speech, but is pushed away by police. The Daily News ran a story about Tom Zimmerman, former public works commissioner, Turk 182. and hacking into a scoreboard computer at Giants Stadium during halftime of a football game at which Tyler and New Yorks governor make an appearance. But Jimmy soon develops a motive for his actions, impressing Danny. When Jimmy and Danny return to his apartment after the Giants game, Jimmy goes back out for pizza, looking through photo albums in their keepsake trunk, she finds an award for Terry with a nameplate on the front bearing Terrys nickname Turk. When she finds Terrys firemans cap with badge number 182 on it, Jimmy returns to find a thoroughly impressed Danny waiting for him in his bed, and the two make love. Police Detective Kowalski opens up a file on Turk 182. When Jimmy and Danny visit Terry in the hospital, Terry tells Jimmy that hes going to try to kill himself again when he is cut out of his body cast, after spotting Kowalski and Ryan waiting outside his apartment, Jimmy decides to reveal himself as Turk. But when he and Danny arrive at the Daily News building they find themselves waiting in line behind several other characters all claiming to be Turk. Just as Jimmy leaves in exasperation he is intercepted by a TV reporter who suggests that if Jimmy is the real Turk, on the evening news, a reporter reveals Jimmy as Turk 182, but describes him as a disgruntled civil servant seeking a pension. Angered that the interview was not aired and he is being called a nut case, Jimmy decides to put Turk to rest once and for all, Mayor Tyler appears at a dedication ceremony for the 75th anniversary of the Queensboro Bridge. Ryan, his job now on the line after the Giants Stadium debacle, clamps down security on, with all local media on hand, the mayor throws the switch lighting up the bridge sign. The lettering on the bridge, which is supposed to say Queensboro 19091984, instead reads gibberish, Jimmy, Ryan dispatches all police to climb up in the scaffolding to catch Jimmy, but they cannot reach him because Jimmy greased all the bridges lower girders

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Reservoir Dogs (video game)
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Reservoir Dogs is a video game based on the Quentin Tarantino film of the same name. Released in 2006, it garnered mostly mediocre reviews and caused minor controversies for its violence, being banned in Australia, the video game has the same story as the movie but goes into more detail. It remains faithful to the film, with gamers able to all the key characters. It follows the progress and planning of the diamond heist, the game consists of both third-person shooting and driving sections. It also features the full and original soundtrack from the movie, of the original actors, only Michael Madsen provides his likeness and voice acting for the game. Michael Madsen reprised his role in the film as Mr. Blonde in the video game. The Classification Board found it could not be accommodated at the MA 15+ classification, and as such, the game has been made unavailable for sale or hire, or be demonstrated in Australia. The New Zealands Office of Film and Literature Classification have dubbed the game objectionable, meaning it is not only banned from sale, the Office found the game tends to promote and support the infliction of extreme violence and extreme cruelty…for the purpose of entertainment. For same reasons as Australia and New Zealand, the game has not officially released in Japan, official website Reservoir Dogs at the Internet Movie Database

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Backdraft (film)
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Backdraft is a 1991 American drama thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by Gregory Widen. The film stars Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca De Mornay, Donald Sutherland, Robert De Niro, Jason Gedrick and it is about Chicago firefighters on the trail of a serial arsonist. The film grossed $77.9 million domestically and $74.5 million in markets, for a total gross of $152.4 million. The film received three Academy Award nominations, two firefighters of Engine 17 of the Chicago Fire Department are brothers. Lt. Stephen Bull McCaffrey, the elder, is experienced, Brian returns to firefighting after a number of other careers falter, though Stephen has doubts that Brian is fit to be a firefighter. In 1971, Brian witnessed the death of their father, Captain Dennis McCaffrey. The longest serving of all the men at Engine 17, John Axe Adcox and he attacks fires head on, but is concerned about Stephens unorthodox methods and disregard for safety procedures. Helen McCaffrey is Stephens estranged wife and the mother of their son, helen has grown fearful of Stephens dedication to firefighting and the risks he takes. While they are still in love, she separated from Stephen to protect herself, Martin Swayzak is an alderman on the Chicago City Council. Swayzak hopes to be elected mayor, but has made cuts to the fire department. Many of the rank and file firemen believe the cuts are endangering firefighters lives, Fire Department Captain Donald Shadow Rimgale is a dedicated arson investigator and veteran firefighter. He is called in because a number of recent fires resemble fires committed by pyromaniac Ronald Bartel, Brian is reassigned as his assistant after a falling out with Stephen. Rimgale manipulates Bartels obsession with fire to ensure Bartels annual parole application is rejected, when Engine 17 answers a call in a high-rise, Stephen urges them to move in quickly to take out the fire despite Adcoxs advice to wait for back-up. Brians friend and fellow trainee, Tim Krizminski, opens a door only to be met by a backdraft and his face is burned beyond recognition, but he survives. Adcox and Brian both blame Tims condition on Stephens reckless tactics, Rimgale and Brian go to Swayzaks home to confront him but interrupt a masked man about to set the place alight. The latter attacks them with a flashlight but is burned by a socket on his back. Rimgale saves Brian and Swayzak from the house but is injured in an explosion, in his hospital bed, Rimgale tells Brian to visit Ronald again. Ronald helps Brian realize that only a firefighter would be so careful as to not let the backdraft fires rage out of control

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Autism Speaks
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Autism Speaks is an autism advocacy organization in the United States that sponsors autism research and conducts awareness and outreach activities aimed at families, governments, and the public. It was founded in February 2005 by Bob Wright, vice chairman of General Electric, and his wife Suzanne, critics accuse the organization of treating autism as a disease that needs to be cured, rather than a difference that needs to be understood and accepted. As well as criticism of ambugious on and off support for vaccines at times seeming to suggest that immunization is associated with a risk of autism. Autism Speaks website as of April 2017 states cientists have conducted research over the last two decades to determine whether there is any link between childhood vaccinations and autism. The results of research is clear, Vaccines do not cause autism. In January 2008, child clinical psychologist Geraldine Dawson, PhD. became Autism Speakss chief science officer, in April 2010, the organization named Yoko Ono its first Global Autism Ambassador. Since its founding, Autism Speaks has merged with three existing autism organizations raising millions of dollars for autism research, since February 2009, Autism Speaks has used the Wubbzy character from Wow. On May 1,2015, Bob Wright resigned as chairman of the organization and he was succeeded by Brian Kelly who had served as Chair of the Audit and Family Services Committees for the organization, and is co-founder of Eastern Real Estate LLC. Bob Wright remains on the board as a co-founder, Suzanne Wright took a leave of absence on November 2,2015 following a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, due to which she fell gravely ill and died on July 29,2016. In 2016, however, Autism Speaks removed curing autism from its mission statement, Autism Speaks supports research in four main areas, Etiology includes genetic and environmental factors that may cause autism. This research includes searches for autism susceptibility genes, animal models for autism, environmental toxins, biology studies cells, the brain, and the body. This focuses on development and includes the Autism Tissue Program discussed further below. Diagnosis includes epidemiology, early diagnosis, and biomarkers, Autism therapies include medication, behavioral, and psychological interventions. Autism Speaks funds the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange, a DNA repository, the AGRE was established in the 1990s by a predecessor organization, Cure Autism Now. Autism Speaks funds the Autism Tissue Program, a network of researchers that manages and distributes brain tissues donated for autism research and these donations are rare and are a vital component of research into the causes of autism. Autism Speaks supports the Clinical Trials Network, which focuses on new pharmacological treatments and it also supports the Toddler Treatment Network, which develops new interventions for infants and toddlers. Autism Speaks believes that vaccines have shown to be safe for most children. This has strained relations between the Wrights and their daughter Katie, the mother of an autistic boy, since June 2014, Autism Speaks partnered with Google on a project called Mssng

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Susan G. Komen for the Cure
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Today, Komen has more than 100,000 volunteers working in a network of 124 affiliates worldwide. According to the Harris Interactive 2010 EquiTrend annual brand equity poll, in 2012, Komens controversial attempt to withdraw funding for mammogram referrals provided by Planned Parenthood caused a significant decline in donations, event participation and public trust. In March 2013, Komen dropped from Charity Navigators highest rating of four stars down to three stars and then to two stars in 2014, as of June 2016, Komen is back to three stars, with a score of 81 out of 100. Susan Goodman, later Susan Goodman Komen, was born in 1943 in Peoria and she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 33. She died of the disease at age 36 in 1980, to fulfill that promise, Brinker founded the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation in Komens memory in 1982. In 2008, the 25th anniversary of the organization, the name was changed to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, in December 2009 Brinker was appointed CEO of the organization. Dr. Judy Salerno became CEO of the organization in 2012, in November 2016, the organization announced that Salerno would step down as CEO the following month. Komens Mission Statement, Save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities and investing in research to prevent. To date, Komen has funded more than $800 million in breast cancer research, patient navigation is a main focal point for Komen, especially in recent years. Most recently they were in D. C. to advocate to reduce barriers to breast cancer treatment. In line with their Bold Goal, Susan G. Komen partnered with BreastCancerTrials. org to create a new tool to help people living with metastatic breast cancer clinical trials. Other organizations advocate more research into the causes of breast cancer and cancer prevention. In the 2009–2010 fiscal year, ending March 31,2010, of this, $365 million came from contributions from the public, including donations, sponsorships, race entry fees, and contributed goods and services. Approximately $35 million came from interest and dividends and gains on investments and that same fiscal year, Komen reported approximately US$360 million in expenses. The other $76.8 million went to supporting services, including $36.1 million toward fund-raising costs and $40.6 million toward general, the Komen CEO salary in 2010 was $459,406 a year. Komen paid founder and CEO Nancy Brinker $417,712 in 2011, the organization has awarded more than 1,000 breast cancer research grants totaling more than $180 million. Komen adheres to a process that is recognized by the US National Cancer Institute. As of 2007, research grants are available for basic, clinical, and translational research, postdoctoral fellowships, since 1992, Komen has also annually awarded work in the field of cancer research with the Komen Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction

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The Michael J. Fox Foundation
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The Foundations proactive approach to advancing Parkinsons disease science has made it the most credible voice on Parkinsons research in the world. In 2010, the Foundation launched the first large scale clinical study on evolution biomarkers of the disease at a cost of $45 million over 5 years. The Foundation drives progress by awarding grants to ensure that the most promising research avenues are thoroughly funded, explored and carried forward toward pharmacy shelves, the Foundations four annually recurring Pipeline Programs aim to speed research along the drug development pipeline. Clinical Intervention Awards support clinical testing of promising PD therapies that may significantly and fundamentally improve treatment of PD, the Pipeline Programs are complemented by the Foundations Critical Challenges in Parkinsons Disease program, which provides funds for top research priorities. Team Fox for Parkinsons Research is the foundation’s grassroots community project raising funds, the Michael J. Fox Foundation publishes a print newsletter, The Fox Focus, two times per year as well as a monthly e-newsletter, FoxFlash, to keep supporters updated on Parkinsons research progress. In 2010, the Foundation launched an audio podcast series on Parkinsons science, living with Parkinsons is the Foundations online source for information on PD, guides for the newly diagnosed and caregivers, stories from people living with the disease and additional resources. In 2016, it created a raffle to raise awareness for Parkinsons disease and raised $6.75 million through Nike, one of the Nike Mags sold for over $200,000

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Shy People
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Shy People is a critically acclaimed 1987 American drama about two branches of a family that reunite with tragic results, starring Barbara Hershey, Jill Clayburgh, and Martha Plimpton. It was directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, written by Konchalovsky, Marjorie David and Gerard Brach, Hershey won the Best Actress award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival for her performance. It was one of the last movie roles for actor Merritt Butrick who died from AIDS in 1989 and it was filmed in by the bayous of South Louisiana. The film was released on VHS on September 1,1998, however, as of October 2014. Diana Sullivan is a successful Manhattan writer and photojournalist, seemingly oblivious to the serious cocaine addiction that her wild child daughter Grace has developed. A commission by Cosmopolitan magazine to write an article about a lost branch of Dianas family leads them deep into the bayous of Louisiana, where they encounter Dianas distant cousin, Ruth. As the fascinated Diana and wary Ruth circle one another, Grace, bored and in grip of her addiction, Shy People is the eleventh soundtrack album in 1988 by Tangerine Dream and their thirty-third overall. It is the soundtrack to the 1988 movie of the same name, all tracks written by Edgar Froese, Chris Franke and Paul Haslinger. Shy People was shot by two-time Academy Award-winner Chris Menges, who worked on A World Apart. Candy Shy People at the Internet Movie Database New York Times review by Vincent Canby Chicago Sun-Times review by Roger Ebert

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Five Corners (film)
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Five Corners is a 1987 American low budget crime drama film starring Tim Robbins, Jodie Foster, John Turturro, and Rodney Harvey. It was directed by Tony Bill and it depicts 48 hours in the lives of a group of young New Yorkers in the 1960s. The film is set in The Bronx in 1964 and we are introduced to Heinz, the neighborhood bully who has just been released from prison, who wastes no time in letting everyone know he hasnt changed by stirring up trouble again. Harry had protected Linda in the near-rape, but since then he has adopted a policy of non-violent response to violence, Harry has now become a Buddhist and a pacifist, and seeks to join Dr. Kings movement, making protecting Linda again a difficult task. We also see Mr. Glasgow, an overly strict high-school teacher murdered by being shot in the back with an arrow while he walks down the street. That night we see Sal driving his fiancé Melanie and her girlfriend Brita around the neighborhood while they take pills and sniff glue in the back seat. Fed up with how theyve gotten so loaded, Sal offers to them to Castro and Willie. Sal even offering them cash to take the women off his hands and they accept and walk off with the girls, who are so high they dont even know who theyre supposed to be with. The next morning, Brita and Melanie wake up in a strange apartment and they get dressed and find Castro and Willie in the hall. Picking up where left off, the boys tell Melanie and Brita, Someone murdered our teacher. But the ride they have in mind is climbing up on top of the elevators with the girls. Heinz calls Linda, and tells her to him in a park at midnight. She reluctantly agrees, knowing that he may become dangerous if she doesnt comply, when arriving at the pool, she finds a board to use for protection and hides it. Heinz shows her a present he got for her, two penguins he stole from the Bronx zoo and she tells him that he has to return them because penguins need special food. Heinz becomes outraged, thinking that she was rejecting his gift, Heinz comes on strong with Linda, pushing her further and further until in desperation she fights Heinz off, and runs off with one of the penguins. She takes it to Jamie, who wishes Linda was his girl and he reluctantly helps her get the penguin set up in a tub at the bar he works in, then escorts her to the subway. Heinz shows up and kidnaps Linda and knocks her out and he carries her to a taxi, kicks out the window to gain entry, and lays her down in the backseat. The dog leads them to the taxi and while attempting to arrest Heinz, one of the detectives is disarmed by Heinz, at the limit of his sanity, and sensing that hes going to die tonight, Heinz carries Linda up to his mothers apartment

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Someone to Watch Over Me (film)
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Someone to Watch Over Me is a 1987 romance crime thriller film starring Tom Berenger and Mimi Rogers and directed by Ridley Scott. The films soundtrack includes the George and Ira Gershwin song from which the film takes its title, here sung by Sting, socialite Claire Gregory attends a party and art show sponsored by one of her oldest friends, Winn Hockings. Accompanying her is her boyfriend, Neil Steinhart. In another part of town, there is party, this one for newly appointed NYPD detective Mike Keegan. Winn is accosted by a partner, Joey Venza, who is angry because Winn had not come to him to borrow money for his new art studio. After a short argument, he stabs Winn to death, Claire witnesses the killing as she steps out of the elevator, she screams and is spotted by Venza. He pursues her, but she manages to get back into the elevator just in time, the police are called in and the new detective Keegan is there. He is a man, but immediately falls for Claire. Along with fellow cops, he is assigned to protect Claire until she can make a positive ID of Venza, Keegan is determined to protect Claire and goes to extremes to do so. Venza makes numerous threats and attempts on her life, nearly succeeding at one point, Keegan and his wife Ellie separate over his involvement in the case. He and Claire acknowledge their love but Keegan cannot bring himself to abandon his family. At the end, Venza, who draws out Keegan by taking his son hostage, is shot by Ellie, Claire breaks up with her staid boyfriend and intends to go to Europe to get over Keegan, who returns to his wife and son. Mike Keegan Mimi Rogers as Claire Gregory Lorraine Bracco as Ellie Keegan Jerry Orbach as Lt. Garber John Rubinstein as Neil Steinhart Andreas Katsulas as Joey Venza Tony Di Benedetto as T. J. Someone to Watch Over Me was a box office disappointment despite positive reviews, the film did better on VHS. Someone to Watch Over Me at the Internet Movie Database Someone to Watch Over Me at the TCM Movie Database Someone to Watch Over Me at AllMovie Someone to Watch Over Me at Rotten Tomatoes

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The Hidden (film)
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The Hidden is an American science fiction action-horror film produced and released in 1987 by New Line Cinema. The film was written by Bob Hunt and directed by Jack Sholder, the cast features Kyle MacLachlan and Michael Nouri and includes supporting roles by Clu Gulager, Chris Mulkey, Ed ORoss, Clarence Felder, Claudia Christian and Larry Cedar. A sequel, The Hidden II, directed by Seth Pinsker was released in 1993. Jack DeVries, a citizen with no criminal past, robs a Los Angeles Wells Fargo bank, kills all of the security guards inside. The chase ends when DeVries encounters a police blockade overseen by detective Thomas Beck, DeVries is shot several times, smashes through the blockade and crashes the Ferrari he is driving. DeVries is taken to a hospital, where a doctor informs Beck and his partner, cliff Willis that DeVries is not expected to survive the night. When told of DeVriess condition, Gallagher rushes off to the hospital, meanwhile, at the hospital, DeVries suddenly awakens. Disconnecting his life-support equipment, he approaches the man in the next bed. After DeVries forces Millers mouth open, a slug-like alien emerges from DeVries mouth, Gallagher arrives to find DeVries dead on the floor and Millers bed abandoned. Gallagher tells Beck to put out an alert on Miller, who refuses, Miller goes to a record store where he beats the stores owner to death. He then goes to a car dealership, where he kills three men and steals a red Ferrari and he then visits a strip club, where the alien leaves Millers body and takes over the body of a stripper named Brenda. Gallagher asks police to track Brenda when he sees her picture next to Millers body, Brenda is then propositioned by a cat-caller, she accepts and follows him to his car. They proceed to have sex in a parking lot which results in his death. Gallagher and Beck pursue her to a rooftop, where they mortally wound her in a gun battle, as Brenda dies, Gallagher points a strangely-shaped, alien weapon at her, however, she leaps from the roof. As Masterson arrives from his house to take charge of the scene, frustrated by Gallaghers continuing refusal to explain the strange phenomenon of ordinary citizens turning into crazed killers, Beck arrests him and puts him in a jail cell. Beck soon learns that Gallagher is an imposter, impersonating the real agent Gallagher, Beck dismisses the story as insane and leaves Gallagher incarcerated in a jail cell at the police station. Back at Mastersons house, the leaves the dogs body. In the morning Masterson goes to the station and seizes a number of weapons

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The Beat (1988 film)
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The Beat is a film released in the U. S. in 1988. A new kid moves into a tough neighborhood controlled by gangs, in 1989, Vestron Video released the movie on videocassette. The movie has never released on DVD, and as of December 30,2009. The Beat at the Internet Movie Database

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Scrooged
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Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas comedy film, a modernization of Charles Dickenss A Christmas Carol. The film was produced and directed by Richard Donner, and the cinematography was by Michael Chapman, the screenplay was written by Mitch Glazer and Michael ODonoghue. The original music score was composed by Danny Elfman, the film stars Bill Murray, with Karen Allen, Bobcat Goldthwait, Alfre Woodard, John Forsythe, Carol Kane, John Houseman, and Robert Mitchum in supporting roles. Murrays brothers Brian, John, and Joel also appear in the film, the film was marketed with references to Ghostbusters which had been a great success four years earlier. In the United States, the tagline was, Bill Murray is back among the ghosts, only this time, Frank Cross is an inconsiderate and arrogant executive in the IBC television network headquarters. He is preparing an extravagant live production of A Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve, forcing the staff, including his assistant Grace Cooley. Meanwhile, Franks boss Preston Rhinelander has hired Brice Cummings, who is transparently after Franks job, hours before the show starts, Frank is visited by the ghost of his mentor Lew Hayward, who announces that three ghosts will appear over the course of the night. Lew also causes Franks phone to call Claire Phillips, Franks true love from years ago, Claire comes to visit Frank, but he is too busy to talk to her. She leaves him the address of the shelter where she works. The Ghost of Christmas Past appears as a driver who takes Frank back to his childhood. His father Earl is an unloving meatpacking foreman who gives him veal for Christmas, Franks only solace is in the world of television, foreshadowing his eventual career path. Returned to the present, Frank goes to the shelter to apologize to Claire. However, when shelter workers pester Claire, Frank reverts to his old self, and bluntly tells Claire she is letting life pass her by, back at IBC, Frank watches final preparations before the live show. The Ghost of Christmas Present appears as a cute, yet volatile pixie who goes by the motto and she shows Frank how Grace struggles with the long hours he puts her through, without being able to care for her family. Her son Calvin has been mute since the death of his five years prior. The Ghost also shows him how James is enjoying Christmas with his wife and friends, James still invites Frank every year, Frank struggles to escape through a boarded-up door, but when he forces the door he crashes through the IBC set during the final rehearsal. Preston has put Brice in charge, fearing that Frank is having a mental breakdown, Frank returns to his office where he is repeatedly shot at by a furious Eliot, whose life he has ruined. Frank dives into an elevator, and finds the Ghost of Christmas Future, appearing as a towering cloaked skeleton with tortured souls trapped inside his ribcage and a TV for a head, waiting for him

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Three Fugitives
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It is a remake of Les Fugitifs, a 1986 French comedy starring Gérard Depardieu and Pierre Richard also directed by Veber. The movie was popular at the box office, grossing more than $64 million against a budget of $15 million, Lucas has been in prison for armed robbery. On the day he is released, he gets taken hostage by Ned Perry, detective Duggan assumes they must be in it together and sets about tracking them down. Several chases, a shooting, treatment from a crazy vet who thinks hes a dog and other capers follow, all the while Lucas trying to ditch his idiotic companion. Whilst avoiding the law, the two form a partnership to help cure the silent Meg and make good their escape. They rescue Meg from the home shes in and flee for Canada. However, in the scene, Perry enters a Canadian bank to change some currency only to find himself taken hostage by a different bank robber in the same manner he originally kidnapped Lucas. Because of this development, Lucas does not need to say goodbye to Meg. The film received reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 14% based on 14 reviews as of May 2016, Three Fugitives at the Internet Movie Database Three Fugitives at Rotten Tomatoes Three Fugitives at Box Office Mojo

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Lethal Weapon 2
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Lethal Weapon 2 is a 1989 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Richard Donner, and starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Patsy Kensit, Derrick OConnor and Joss Ackland. It is a sequel to the 1987 film Lethal Weapon and second installment in the Lethal Weapon series, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing. The film received positive reviews and earned more than $227 million worldwide. One year after the events of Lethal Weapon, LAPD sergeants Martin Riggs and it soon becomes clear that both cases are related, After an attempt on Leos life, Riggs and Murtaugh learn of the formers murky past laundering funds for vengeful drug smugglers. Two assassins attack Murtaugh at his home, but he kills them in the ensuing fight and he succeeds in drowning Rika, but a vengeful Riggs manages to escape. He phones Murtaugh, declaring an intention to pursue Rudd and avenge his wife, Rika, and their fallen friends, while investigating a guarded 40 foot cargo container at the docks, Riggs and Murtaugh are locked inside by Rudds men. They break out of the box, scattering two pallets of Rudds drug money into the harbor in the process, Riggs and Murtaugh engage in a firefight with some of Rudds men aboard the Alba Varden before separating to hunt down Rudd. Riggs confronts and fights Vorstedt hand-to-hand, culminating when Riggs stabs Vorstedt with his own knife, Rudd retaliates by shooting Riggs in the back multiple times with an antique Broomhandle Mauser pistol. Ignoring his claim to immunity, Murtaugh kills Rudd with a single shot from his revolver and tends to Riggs. Producer Joel Silver asked writer of the first film Shane Black to write the script for the sequel in the spring of 1987 and Black agreed. Although he was struggling with issues, Black still managed to write the first draft along with his friend, novelist Warren Murphy. Their original title for the script was Play Dirty, when his script was rejected, Black felt that he had failed the producers. He initially offered to give his payment back, but his agent talked him out of it, Black also refused to re-write the script and quit from the project after working for six months on it. Black later said how the problem with the film was that they did too much comedy. The final version of the written by Jeffrey Boam that was used for filming was completely different from Blacks draft. The character of Leo Getz was originally a character in Blacks draft with only one scene. There was also a scene where Riggs gets tortured by them in a way to how he was in first film. There was also a scene in the script where a plane full of cocaine gets destroyed

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Born on the Fourth of July (film)
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Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 American war drama film adaptation of the best-selling autobiography of the same name by Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic. Tom Cruise plays Ron Kovic, in a performance that earned him his first Academy Award nomination, Oliver Stone co-wrote the screenplay with Kovic, and also produced and directed the film. Stone wanted to film the movie in Vietnam, but because relations between the United States and Vietnam had not yet been normalized, it was filmed in the Philippines. The film is considered part of Stones trilogy of films about the Vietnam War—following Platoon and preceding Heaven & Earth. Born on the Fourth of July was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won two, for Best Director and Best Film Editing, it won four Golden Globe Awards. The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing $161,001,698 worldwide, in the summer of 1956 in Massapequa, Long Island, New York, 10-year-old Ron Kovic plays soldier in the woods and attends a Fourth of July parade. After watching President John F. Kennedys inaugural address, it inspires him to enlist in the Marines, later, Kovic attends an impassioned lecture about the Marine Corps. He decides to enlist and misses his prom because he is unable to secure a date with his love interest and he confronts her at the prom and has a dance with her on his last night before leaving. Now a Marine sergeant and on patrol during his second Vietnam tour in October 1967, Kovics unit kills a number of Vietnamese civilians in a village, during the retreat, Kovic accidentally kills one of the new arrivals to his platoon, a younger private first class named Wilson. During a firefight in January 1968, Kovic is critically wounded, Kovic desperately tries to walk again with the use of crutches and braces, despite repeated warnings from his doctors. In 1969, Kovic returns home, permanently in a wheelchair, though he tries to maintain his dignity as a United States Marine, Kovic gradually becomes disillusioned, despite being paralyzed, and resorts to alcohol. In Kovics absence, his younger brother Tommy has already become staunchly anti-war, during an Independence Day parade, Kovic shows signs of post-traumatic stress when firecrackers explode. When he is asked to give a speech, a baby in the crowd starts crying. Later, Kovic goes to visit Donna at her college in Syracuse, New York and he and Donna are separated when she and her fellow students are taken away by the police at her college for demonstrating against the Vietnam War. Ron goes to a bar, almost gets into a fight with a fellow Marine, after Ron has a heated argument with his mother, his father decides to send him to Mexico. He arrives in The Village of the Sun, which seems to be a haven for paralyzed Vietnam veterans and he has his first sexual experience with a prostitute, whom he believes he loves, until he sees her with another customer. He hooks up with another veteran, Charlie, and the two travel to what they believe will be a friendlier village. After annoying their taxicab driver, they end up stranded on the side of the road and they are picked up by a man with a truck and driven back to the Village of the Sun

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Crash and Burn (film)
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Crash and Burn is a 1990 American science fiction film directed by Charles Band. It was originally titled Robot Jox 2, Crash and Burn in most European markets, unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to ensure life, liberty, despite the title, same opening theme, and involvement of Charles Band, and reused cover art, the plots of Robot Jox 2, Crash and Burn and Robot Jox are completely unrelated. The film was released on DVD by Full Moon in 2000, the DVD contained a widescreen print of the film. The film was released onto DVD again through the Charles Band DVD Collection. The boxset also contains Meridian, Kiss of the Beast, Doctor Mordrid, the film was again released on DVD by Shout. Factory on June 14,2011, as a double feature DVD with Robot Wars, Robot Wars - a 1993 film also marketed as a sequel to Robot Jox Crash and Burn at the Internet Movie Database

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Across the Tracks
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Across the Tracks is a 1991 American independent film drama about track and field. It was directed and written by Sandy Tung, across the Tracks is the story of two brothers who have gone very different ways in their past, and who now must learn to deal with each other again. Joe is the older of the two and he is a good student and runner set on winning a track scholarship to Stanford University. Billy, on the hand, is a delinquent involved in drugs. As the story begins, he has just been released from school after serving time for a failed attempt at car theft. While Billy tries to make amends for his past life, it is not an easy task, Joe still holds a lot of resentment for what Billy has put their widowed mother through, and feels that Billys return is an unnecessary strain on their family. Billys friend Louie, a highly alluring drug dealer who was involved in the car theft that got Billy sent to reform school. It seems that only Billy and Joes mother believes that Billy can become a member of society. Joe mockingly suggests to Billy that he try out for his track team. Nevertheless, Billy asks the coach at his school for a tryout even though the season is two months old and only two months remain until the county meet. Impressed, the coach immediately puts Billy on the team, Joe is very much impressed by this, and the two start to bond, especially after Joe goes out and buys him a special pair of track shoes as a gift. Billys speed soon makes him a contender for the county record for the 800m event, since Billy attends a rival school to Joes, they compete in a head to head meet as a prelude to the championship and Billy defeats Joe. The brothers are then scheduled to compete in the meet which will help determine whether or not Joe receives that scholarship to Stanford. With the pressure on Joe to prove that he is the best runner in the county, Joe ends up shattering the record thanks to Billy holding back in the final leg of the race, letting Joe win and coming in a close second

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The Doors (film)
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The Doors is a 1991 American biographical film about the 1960–70s rock band of the same name which emphasizes the life of its lead singer, Jim Morrison. It was directed by Oliver Stone, and stars Val Kilmer as Morrison, the film features Kyle MacLachlan as Ray Manzarek, Frank Whaley as Robby Krieger, Kevin Dillon as John Densmore, and Kathleen Quinlan as Patricia Kennealy. The film portrays Morrison as the icon of 1960s rock and roll, counterculture. The film was not well received by his mates, close friends. In 1965, Jim arrives in California and is assimilated into the Venice Beach culture, Jim convinces his bandmates to travel to Death Valley and experience the effects of psychedelic drugs. Returning to Los Angeles, they play several shows at the famous nightclub Whisky a Go Go, Jims onstage antics and occasionally improvised lyrics raise the ire of club owners, however, the bands popularity continues to expand. As the Doors become hugely successful, Jim becomes increasingly infatuated with his own image as The Lizard King and degenerates into alcoholism, Jim meets Patricia Kennealy, a rock journalist involved in witchcraft, and participates with her in mystical ceremonies. He joins her in a handfasting ceremony, an elder spirit watches these events. The rest of the band grows weary of Jims missed recording sessions, Jim arrives late to a Miami, Florida concert, becoming increasingly confrontational towards the audience and allegedly exposing himself onstage. The incident is a low point for the band, resulting in charges against Jim, cancellations of shows, breakdowns in Jims personal relationships. In 1970 after a trial, Jim is found guilty of indecent exposure and ordered to serve time in prison. Patricia tells Jim that she is pregnant with his child but Jim convinces her to have an abortion. Jim visits his fellow Doors members one final time, attending a party thrown by Ray where he wishes the band luck in their future endeavors, as Jim plays in the front garden with the children, he sees that one of the children is his childhood self. Jim comments This is the strangest life Ive ever known, in 1971, Pam finds Jim dead in a bathtub in Paris, France, at the age of 27. The final scenes of the film before the roll are of Jims gravesite in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris while A Feast of Friends plays in the background. Just before the credits, the whites out and text appears saying Jim Morrison is said to have died of heart failure. Pam joined him three years later, during the credits, the band is shown recording the song L. A. Woman in the studio. In 1985, Columbia Pictures acquired the rights from the Doors, producer Sasha Harari wanted filmmaker Oliver Stone to write the screenplay but never heard back from his agent

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Cool as Ice
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Cool as Ice is a 1991 American romantic musical comedy film directed by David Kellogg and starring rapper Vanilla Ice in his feature film debut. The film focuses on the character of Johnny Van Owen, a freewheeling, motorcycle-riding rapper who arrives in a town and meets Kathy. Meanwhile, Kathys father, who is in protection, is found by the corrupt police officers he escaped from years ago. The film was developed as a vehicle for Vanilla Ice and it has received negative reviews, and was a critical and commercial lackbuster, grossing only $1.2 million from a $6 million budget. Johnny Van Owen is a rapper who drifts from city to city, Johnny is performing at a nightclub, rapping and dancing with his crew and a club background songstress playing Cool as Ice. While the group passes through a town, Johnny falls for honor student Kathy Winslow. The crew is stranded in the town after a members motorcycle breaks down and has to be left at a repair shop. While waiting for repairs, Johnny uses the opportunity to see Kathy and she already has a boyfriend named Nick, whom he advises Kathy to dump. Johnny shows up with his crew at a club frequented by Kathy. He offers to forgive Kathy and take her home, but she refuses, unbeknownst to Kathy, she is stalked by two strange men in a car. She is saved by Johnny, who takes her home, at the clubs parking lot, a jealous Nick and his friends smash up motorcycles belonging to Johnnys friends. Nicks friends attack the rapping biker who fights back, leaving Nick and his buddies unconscious, Kathys father, Gordon, becomes suspicious of Johnny, and warns Kathy to stay away from him because they cant trust strangers. The next day, Kathy goes for a ride with Johnny against her fathers wishes and they ride all over town, including a construction site. When they finally return home, they are greeted by an angry Gordon, Gordon, under pressure from his wife Grace, reveals to Kathy the secret of his past—he was once a police officer. They were on the run from two corrupt cops and were able to escape using fabricated documents, explaining why he kept his life a secret from Kathy all these years. Kathy criticizes her father, saying it was not fair that he lied to her in order to protect her, the next day, Johnny agrees to give Tommy a ride on his bike. They cruise through the streets, and finally back to the Winslow home where Tommy is kidnapped, at the repair shop, the crew prepares to leave town since the bike has been repaired, but they tell Johnny to say goodbye to Kathy. When Johnny arrives at the Winslow house, he finds an envelope meant for the family and it turns out to be a message from the crooked cops with Tommy recording it

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Basic Instinct
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Basic Instinct is a 1992 neo-noir erotic thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas, and starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone. The film follows a detective, Nick Curran, who is investigating the brutal murder of a wealthy rock star. During the investigation Curran becomes involved in a torrid and intense relationship with the suspect, Catherine Tramell. Even before its release, Basic Instinct generated heated controversy due to its overt sexuality and it was strongly opposed by gay rights activists, who criticized the films depiction of homosexual relationships and the portrayal of a bisexual woman as a murderous narcissistic psychopath. In a 2006 interview, Stone alleged that the infamous leg-crossing scene in which her vulva was exposed was filmed without her knowledge, despite initial critical negativity and public protest, Basic Instinct became one of the most financially successful films of the 1990s, grossing $352 million worldwide. Several versions of the film have been released on videocassette, DVD, a 2006 sequel, Basic Instinct 2 starring Stone was made without Verhoevens involvement, but received negative reviews from critics and was unsuccessful at the box office. A retired rock star, Johnny Boz, is stabbed to death with an ice pick during sex by a blonde woman at his apartment. Homicide detective Nick Curran investigates, and the suspect is Catherine Tramell, Bozs bisexual girlfriend. It is concluded that either Catherine herself did it or someone trying to frame her out of spite, Tramell is uncooperative and taunting in the investigation, smoking in the interrogation room and exposing her bare genitalia in front of the officers. She presents alibis and passes a lie detector test, Nick, who accidentally shot two tourists while high on cocaine, attends counseling sessions with police psychologist Dr. Beth Garner, with whom he has had a sexual affair. Nick discovers that Catherine plans on using him as a detective in her latest book. Catherine becomes aware of Nicks past after paying Lt. Nielsen to look into Nicks psychiatric file, Nick publicly assaults Nielsen in his office and later becomes a prime suspect after Nielsen is killed. Nick suspects Catherine, and when he joins in her behavior in front of his co-workers, a torrid affair between Nick and Catherine begins with the air of a cat-and-mouse game. Nick shows up at a club and witnesses her sniffing coke in a stall along with Roxy. Nick and Catherine begin to dance and make out at a club, later, observed by Roxy, they have sex in a bed. Roxy, jealous of Nick, attempts to run him over with Catherines car, Nick identifies the girl as Beth Garner, who acknowledges the encounter, but claims Catherine was the one who became obsessed. Nick discovers the pages of Catherines new book in which the fictional detective finds his partner lying dead with his legs protruding between the doors of an elevator. Catherine breaks off their affair, Nick becomes upset and suspicious, Nick later meets his partner Gus, who has arranged to meet with Catherines college roommate at an office building to find out what really went on between Catherine and Beth

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Lethal Weapon 3
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Lethal Weapon 3 is a 1992 American buddy cop action comedy film directed and produced by Richard Donner, and starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo and Stuart Wilson. It is the film in the Lethal Weapon series. In the film, which is set three years after Lethal Weapon 2, Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh pursue Jack Travis, a former L. A. P. D, lieutenant turned ruthless arms dealer, during the six days prior to Murtaughs retirement. Riggs and Murtaugh are joined by Leo Getz, as well as Internal Affairs Sergeant Lorna Cole, unlike the first two films which received generally positive reviews, Lethal Weapon 3 was met with mixed reviews, but was a box office success, grossing over $320 million worldwide. It was the fifth highest-grossing film of 1992 and the film in the Lethal Weapon series. A fourth film, Lethal Weapon 4, was released on July 10,1998, two days before his retirement, L. A. P. D. While on street patrol they witness the theft of an armored car, one of the two thieves gets away, but the other is taken into police custody. The suspect is found to be an associate of Jack Travis. The department is concerned that the thieves were using armor-piercing bullets. Riggs and Murtaugh are re-promoted and assigned to work with Sergeant Lorna Cole from internal affairs to track down Travis, Travis is currently negotiating with mobster Tyrone regarding his arms deal. The armored car thief that escaped is brought to Travis, who kills him in front of Tyrone for putting the police on his trail. Travis then uses his old credentials to enter the interrogation room. Travis is unaware that closed-circuit cameras have been installed in the station, while the three are reviewing the footage, their friend Leo Getz arrives and immediately recognizes Travis from several prior business deals and his love of ice hockey. Riggs and Murtaugh contact Cole for backup before they raid the warehouse, while they wait, they witness a drug deal which they step in to stop. A gun fight breaks out, and Murtaugh kills one of those involved who had fired back at them, Murtaugh is shocked to find the dead man is Darryl, a close friend of his son Nick. With Murtaugh emotionally distraught, Riggs goes with Cole to the warehouse and that night, Riggs and Cole find they have feelings for each other and sleep together. Riggs later goes to Murtaugh, who is overwhelmed with guilt. There, Darryls father passionately insist that Murtaugh find the responsible for giving Darryl the gun

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The Paper (film)
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The Paper is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, Randy Quaid and Robert Duvall. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for Make Up Your Mind, the film depicts a hectic 24 hours in a newspaper editors professional and personal life. The main story of the day is the murder of a couple of visiting businessmen, the reporters discover evidence suggesting a police cover-up of evidence of the suspects innocence, and rush to scoop the story in the midst of professional, private and financial chaos. The film takes place during a 24-hour period, Henry Hackett is the metro editor of the New York Sun, a fictional New York City tabloid. He is a workaholic who loves his job, but the long hours and he is at risk of experiencing the same fate as his editor-in-chief, Bernie White, who put his work first at the expense of his family. The papers owner, Graham Keighley, faces dire financial straits, so he has Alicia Clark, the managing editor and Henrys nemesis, impose unpopular cutbacks. Henrys wife Martha, a fellow Sun reporter on leave and about to give birth, is fed up because Henry seems to have less and less time for her, but might also be a bit boring for his tastes. Minor subplots involve Alicia, Bernie and Sun columnist Michael McDougal, McDougal is threatened by an angry city official named Sandusky whom McDougals column had been tormenting for the past several weeks. Their drunken confrontation in a bar leads to gunfire, which gets Alicia shot in the leg through the wall, Alicia, who is having an affair with Sun reporter Carl and has expensive tastes, schemes to get a raise in her salary. Because of this story, Henry is wrought with tough decisions, deadlines and he becomes obsessed with getting to the bottom of the case, getting others from the Sun staff to investigate along with him. He goes so far as to blow his job offer at the Sentinel after he steals information about the case from the editors desk notes and reports it during a Sun staff meeting. With this new evidence, Henry begins to believe that it was all a setup and he is so determined to get the correct story that he leaves a dinner with Martha and his parents to go to the police station with McDougal. Henry and McDougal race back to the Sun office, excited about their exclusive for the paper and this results in a physical fight between her and Henry, after he tries to stop the presses, which are already printing the papers with the wrong information. Martha is later rushed to the hospital for an emergency C-section due to uterine hemorrhaging, Alicia, accidentally shot by Sandusky in the bar and brought to the same hospital, has a change of heart. She calls the Sun office, has the print room stop the run, the new editions are printed just in time for the following morning circulation. David said, We wanted a regular day, though this is far from regular. They also wanted to “look at the pressures of a paper to get on the street and still tell the truth. ”After writing the character of a pregnant reporter married to the metro editor. Around this time, Universal Pictures greenlighted the project, for his next project, Ron Howard was looking to do something on the newspaper industry

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Miracle on 34th Street (1994 film)
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Miracle on 34th Street is a 1994 American Christmas fantasy film written and produced by John Hughes, and directed by Les Mayfield. It stars Richard Attenborough, Mara Wilson, Elizabeth Perkins, and Dylan McDermott, like the original, it was released by 20th Century Fox, to mixed to positive reception. The New York City based Macys declined any involvement with the film, gimbels had gone out of business in 1987, so it was replaced by the fictional Shoppers Express. The film opens with a man sporting a fedora, glasses. As he stops at a crosswalk, a boy named Ryan pleads to his grandfather, Judge Henry Harper. Henry, knowing that the man overheard Ryan, clears up the misunderstanding by saying that Ryan thinks he is Santa Claus, after an exchange of laughs, the elderly man surprises Ryan by saying, I am. After he leaves, a dismayed and contented Ryan states that he should have got his autograph, on the same day, Coles Department Stores special events director Dorey Walker fires Tony Falacchi from being the stores Santa after he gets drunk before taking part in the Thanksgiving parade. Immediately trying to find a replacement, she spots the man from the films opening who was berating the inebriated Tony before the parade. When Dorey begs him to take over, he himself as Kris Kringle. He does so well in the parade that he is hired to be the stores Santa for the holiday period. All the children begin to believe that he is the real Santa, with the exception of Doreys six-year-old daughter, Doreys boyfriend and neighbor, Bryan Bedford, does his best to convince Susan to believe. While being babysat one night by Kris, she shares her Christmas wish with him and she would like a dad, a house and a baby brother. He asks if she would begin to believe in Santa if she got all those things, Kris is credited with bringing in increasingly more sales to Coles than previous years. One night, while walking home, a man tries to interrogate him and these actions however, leads him to be arrested. With the help of Bryan, Dorey takes Kris case to court, just as Henry is about to make his decision, Susan walks up to him with a Christmas card containing a $1 bill. On the back, the words In God We Trust are circled and he realizes that, since the U. S. Department of Treasury can put its official faith in God with no hard evidence, then the people can believe in Santa in the same way. Left with no choice, an elated Henry dismisses the case and declares that Santa is real, existing in the person of Kris. Following the court case, Dorey and Bryan are maneuvered by Kris into realizing their feelings for each other

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Jury Duty (film)
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The film was actress Billie Birds last screen appearance. Tommy Collins is an erotic dancer living at his mothers home in a trailer park while he looks for a decent job. He finds out that she and her boyfriend Jed, a collector, are going to Las Vegas to be married. Although his mother had arranged for Tommy to stay with the Woodalls, he considers them awful people and decides to look for other living arrangements for him and he rummages through the trash and finds his letter for jury duty that he had thrown away and decides to enter. Each of the jurors get their own free accommodation plus $5 a day, the evidence against him gets stronger, when several employees appear as witnesses saying that he threatened to kill them. All the jurors are staying at the Holiday Suite in the section that is being remodeled, Tommy seems to be enjoying himself, until he finds he is sharing his room with his former high school principal, who puts motivational tapes on at night to full blast. He makes a deal with the manager of the hotel who says that he will get a different room if he advertises their business during news broadcasts, Tommy agrees and ends up staying in a luxurious suite. Finally the jurors go to the room for deliberation and appoint Tommy as their foreman. The other jurors immediately think that Bishop is guilty and want to vote straight away, not wanting to lose his suite and luxurious lifestyle, Tommy votes not guilty and stalls and prolongs the deliberations as well as continuously going over the evidence. Unfortunately, later on, Monica finds Peanut and follows him up to Tommys luxury suite, even though Tommy tries to explain that hes now a changed person, she is deeply upset on how he used them and walks out in tears. Later the Judge declares a mistrial and arranges another hearing at a later date, back at the trailer park, Tommy goes mining for polystyrene with Jed at the city dump. After seeing many polystyrene containers with fast food logos on them and he calls Monica, who immediately hangs up on him, but he goes looking for Frank, another fellow juror, who was also obsessed with the environment. Later that night someone meets another man named Frank who thanks him for volunteering to do duty on his behalf while he was on vacation. The killer is revealed to be Frank, the man Tommy was looking for, Tommy arrives at the same house and relays his new evidence to Frank, asking Frank to help find Monica at the library she works at in order to convince her that his evidence is genuine. When they arrive at the library, Frank reveals to Tommy and he ties them up and attempts to stab them with a sharp jagged knife. He tells them that he committed these murders and framed Carl Wayne Bishop because he thought there was no way of truth. With Peanuts help, however, they manage to subdue Frank, Tommy is given a check for his contribution in the case and Monica starts dating Tommy. He uses his earnings from erotic dancing towards law school and eventually becomes an attorney, meanwhile, Peanut is shown accomplishing his lifelong dream of becoming a contestant on Jeopardy

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Unstrung Heroes
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Unstrung Heroes is a 1995 American comedy-drama film directed by Diane Keaton. The screenplay by Richard LaGravenese is based on a memoir by journalist Franz Lidz. The two, who live in a setting worthy of the Collyer brothers, rechristen the boy with the colorful name Franz. The film shifted the storys setting of New York City to Southern California. Keatons previous directing credits were the 1987 documentary Heaven and the 1991 television movie Wildflower, the film debuted at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival in May. Prior to its release, it was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, during its widest release in the US, the film played at only 576 theaters. In a New York magazine profile that ran before the release, Franz Lidz confessed, My initial fear was that Disney would turn my uncles into Grumpy. I never imagined that my life could be turned into Old Yeller and he added, Someday somebody may find a cure for cancer, but the terminal sappiness of cancer movies is probably beyond remedy. Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote, A coming-of-age piece that is slight to the point of anemia, in her review in The New York Times, Janet Maslin called it a warm, surprising, gently incandescent film. Becomes a celebration of independence and the sustaining powers of art. Also succeeds in becoming very moving without being maudlin, screenplay runs the risk of being generically uplifting, even bland, instead, it has a sharply distinctive flavor, honest pathos and a hint of delightful household magic. Thomas Newmans sparkling musical score echoes that buoyant tone, roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said the film has been directed by Diane Keaton with an unusual combination of sentiment and quirky eccentricity. There are moments so touching that the heart almost stops, in the San Francisco Chronicle, Edward Guthmann called it a picture that bears comparison to To Kill a Mockingbird. is that rare mainstream film that doesnt shout in our ear to make its points. It draws us in, subtly and gracefully, and casts a lingering charm, rita Kempley of the Washington Post described it as a sensitive coming-of-age story in the sublime tradition of My Life as a Dog. In Rolling Stone, Peter Travers opined, Steven Lidz, a 12-year-old growing up in New York during the 60s with a dying mother, Steven, now Franz Lidz and a writer for Sports Illustrated, wins acclaim for a childhood memoir that doesnt choke on whimsy or schmaltz. The film version, directed by Diane Keaton from a script by Richard LaGravenese, the movie works like a charm. The movie performed well at the box office, thomas Newman was nominated for the Academy Award for Original Music Score and the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television. Michael Richards was nominated for the American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture, Unstrung Heroes at the Internet Movie Database Unstrung Heroes at Box Office Mojo Unstrung Heroes at Rotten Tomatoes

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Showgirls
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Showgirls is a 1995 French-American erotic drama film written by Joe Eszterhas and directed by Paul Verhoeven. It stars former teen actress Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, the film centers on a street-smart drifter who ventures to Las Vegas and climbs the seedy hierarchy from stripper to showgirl. Produced on a budget of approximately $45 million, significant controversy and hype surrounding the films amounts of sex. In the United States, the film was rated NC-17 for nudity and erotic sexuality throughout, some graphic language, Showgirls was the first NC-17 rated film to be given a wide release in mainstream theaters. Audience restriction due to the NC-17 rating coupled with poor reviews resulted in the film becoming a box office bomb with a take of less than $38 million, for its video premiere, Verhoeven prepared an R-rated cut for rental outlets that would not carry NC-17 films. This edited version runs 3 minutes shorter and deletes some of the graphic footage. An unofficial spin-off sequel entitled Showgirls 2, Pennys from Heaven, focused on the minor character Penny, played by Rena Riffel, was written, produced. It was released at midnight showings, art house theaters, film festivals, charity non-profit organizations. Nomi Malone is a drifter who hitchhikes to Las Vegas hoping to make it as a showgirl. After being cheated of her money by her driver, Nomi meets Molly Abrams, Molly invites Nomi backstage at Goddess, the Stardust Casino show where she works, to meet Cristal Connors, the diva star of the topless dance revue. When Nomi tells Cristal she dances at Cheetahs Topless Club, Cristal derisively tells her that what she does is akin to prostitution, when Nomi is too upset to go to work that night, Molly takes her dancing at The Crave Club. After getting into a fight with James, a bouncer at the club, James bails her out of jail, but she pays him little notice. Shortly thereafter, Cristal and her boyfriend Zack Carey, the entertainment director at the Stardust, visit Cheetahs, although the bisexual Cristal is attracted to Nomi, her request is also based upon her desire to humiliate Nomi by proving she is little more than a prostitute. Nomi reluctantly performs the lap dance after Cristal offers her $500, James happens to be at the strip club as well and witnesses the lap dance. He visits Nomis trailer the next morning and, like Cristal, Cristal arranges for Nomi to audition for the chorus line of Goddess. Tony Moss, the director, humiliates Nomi by asking her to put ice on her nipples to make them hard. Furious, Nomi leaves the audition and again runs into James, despite her outburst at the audition, Nomi gets the job and quits Cheetahs. Cristal further humiliates Nomi by suggesting she make an appearance at a boat trade show which turns out to be a thinly disguised form of prostitution

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Rumpelstiltskin (1995 film)
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Rumpelstiltskin is a 1995 horror film directed by Mark Jones and starring Max Grodénchik as the title character. In the 14th century, Rumpelstiltskin is imprisoned inside a small jade figurine, allMovie wrote, this groan-inducing would-be camp boasts some good makeup by Kevin Yagher but is still easily the worst of the 90s crop of fairy-tale horrors. Rumpelstiltskin at the Internet Movie Database

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The Quest (film)
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The Quest is a 1996 American martial arts film co-written and directed by Jean-Claude Van Damme in his directorial debut, who also starred in the film. The film co-stars Roger Moore, James Remar and Janet Gunn, the Quest was released in the United States on April 26,1996. Claims by Frank Dux that the film was a rework of a script he had written in 1991, entitled Enter the New Dragon, the film received negative reviews from most professional film critics, but it was a modest box office success. Late night in an empty bar in the present day, an old man enters and awaits service, and not long after, the old man defeats them easily one by one with hand-to-hand combat. Amazed, the bartender asks how he learned to fight, the old man replies it was long ago. Christopher Dubois is a pickpocket in his mid-twenties, living in 1925 New York City, orphaned as a child, Dubois looks after a large group of young orphans by performing cons and stealing. After stealing a large sum of money from a group of gangsters, Dubois, Dubois is able to subdue the gangsters, but the struggle draws the attention of the police. After promising to return to the children, Dubois escapes the police by stowing away on a boat and he is found out by the crew and imprisoned by gun smugglers and pirates and forced into physical labor. Eventually, the crew decides Dubois is no longer needed, but before he can be killed, after six months, Dobbs and his partner Harri Smythe find Dubois fighting in a Muay Thai match and see that he has become a skilled fighter. Dobbs later assists Dubois, buying his freedom so the fighter can represent the U. Along for the journey are American reporter Carrie Newton and heavyweight boxing champion Maxie Devine, Dubois ultimately wins the tournament by defeating the representative of Mongolia and he is given a medal and proclaimed the greatest fighter, but does not accept the Golden Dragon. Instead he trades it for the lives of Dobbs and his comrade Harri, back in the bar, Dubois explains he returned to New York and helped the children get off the streets. Ultimately, things turned out for the best, Devine helped to train many great fighters, while Dobbs and Harri opened a trading post deep in the Amazon. In the final scene, a book closes, revealing its title, The Quest, the reaction of many professional film critics was negative, citing the movies thin script, Jean-Claude Van Dammes direction, and too much resemblance to Van Dammes previous hit Bloodsport. The Quest currently holds a 14% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the Quest at the Internet Movie Database The Quest at Box Office Mojo The Quest at Rotten Tomatoes MarkAnthony Baca at the Internet Movie Database

The Rascals (initially known as The Young Rascals) were an American rock band, formed in Garfield, New Jersey in 1965. …

The band in 1966. Standing in back: Dino Danelli. Sitting in front (L-R): Felix Cavaliere, Eddie Brigati and Gene Cornish

The Rascals performing "Groovin'" during one of their 2013 Once Upon a Dream shows. The large video screen helped accentuate song themes and also showed interviews with members and re-enactments of the group's history. Left to right, Gene Cornish, Felix Cavaliere, Dino Danelli, Eddie Brigati, and various supporting players and singers.